The education of Jupiter

This Education of Jupiter, dated around 1700, depicts the infant god being raised by the nymph Amalthea and fed by the goat whose horn would become the cornucopia. The late date suggests this may be a workshop or school production after Jordaens' design, as the artist died in 1678. Jordaens was the dominant painter in Antwerp after Rubens's death in 1640, continuing the Flemish Baroque tradition of large-scale multi-figure compositions with robust earthy vigor. His genre scenes of festive Fle...

The mythological scene is rendered in the warm, fleshy style associated with Jordaens' school, with robust figures and lush pastoral setting characteristic of Flemish Baroque mythological painting.